Greek word · Strong's G3056

λόγος

lógos · noun · “word”

In a sentence

Logos means word, message, or reason — and in John’s Gospel it is a title for Jesus himself, the eternal Word who was with God and was God.

Logos was a weighty term in both Jewish and Greek thought — God’s creative, ordering word. John takes it and makes a staggering claim: “In the beginning was the Word (Logos)… and the Word was God,” then “the Word became flesh.”

So logos in the New Testament spans the message of the gospel (“the word of truth”) and the person of Christ, the ultimate self-expression of God. To encounter the Word is to encounter God making himself known.

Strong's reference

Definition: something said (including the thought); by implication, a topic (subject of discourse), also reasoning (the mental faculty) or motive; by extension, a computation; specially, (with the article in John) the Divine Expression (i.e. Christ)

KJV usage: account, cause, communication, X concerning, doctrine, fame, X have to do, intent, matter, mouth, preaching, question, reason, + reckon, remove, say(-ing), shew, X speaker, speech, talk, thing, + none of these things move me, tidings, treatise, utterance, word, work

Reference gloss from Strong's Concordance (1890, public domain).

Key verses BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

John 1:1 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” John 1:14 “The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.” Hebrews 4:12 “For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.”

Original BibleDawn word study. Original-language data and the public-domain Strong's (1890) gloss are referenced; see sources.